Growing Anubias Lanceolata (Anubias Lanceolata) In The Aquarium

This is a semi-aquatic plant. It natural habitat is tropical temporary reservoirs with muddy and silty bottom in Africa. It can be completely submerged.

The plant has thin rhizome with well-developed root system and rosulate leaves. These leaves have long leaf stems and they are bottle green, lance-shaped. Leaf blade is up to 20 cm long and about 8 cm wide.

This is easy to grow and almost undemanding species – it needs substrate with additional fertilization. This plant grows slowly and its leaves are often covered with algae. We should systematic clean these leaves. We can't cover up the rhizome with a substrate. We must only cover roots of the plant. The rhizome should loosely adhere to the surface layer of the substrate.

We should plant this species in the middle of the aquarium. We can also arrange it on the decorative elements – roots or bid stones – or we may use it to mask the technical equipment. We may use this plant for aquarium with herbivore fish because it has hard and strong leaves.

This is spermatophyte species and it can bloom in artificial conditions. In aquarium we reproduce it vegetatively – by dividing the rhizome.